Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-07
CONFEDERATE WOMEN. sEs
Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Stuart, Mrs.
Beauregard, and Mrs. Davis.
Fron the "a. Louis Renn1Eican.

| Beauregard, and Mrs. Davis.
From the 81. Louis Republican.
THE Southern Confederacy turned out
host of handsome women ;" said an ole
soldier the other night as he seated him
self IN the rooms of the Missouri eX-Con
| federate Association. Eyes, sir? You
| talk nowadays about handsome women
but you ought to have seen them DURING
! the war, Gen. John Morgan married the
| prettiest gi ri in Tennessee, and, If | am
not greatly mistaken, she is yet living
and still beautiful. She was a Miss
Ready. Her father lived at MurfreesborO
and was prominent lawyer of that sec.
| ton forty years ago. Miss Ready
was a COnfederate-an out-and-outer
| She loved John Morgan because he was q
| daring, brilliant, brave man; and 80 she
married him. One year later he was
| killed, and heard that the tragedy broke
her heart. She was marvelously beau.
| tiful Woman-thaJ sort of beauty which
cannot be reproduced in a photograph,
and can only be suggested in an III paint
ing. Mrs. Morgan had fine figure and
eyes which could melt or annihilate you,
| just as her emotions dictated. Tennessee
| has turned out thousands OF pretty
| women, but few have ever equalled in
| statuesque beauty the handsome widow
of Gen. John Morgan.
"rhen there was the wife of Gen. j. e.
B. Stuart. She was Miss Flora Cooke,
daughter Of Col. Philip st. George Cooke,
of the Second Dragons. The wedding
! took place, l think, at Fort Riley, Nov.
| IA, 1855, and it was one of the SWEETEST
| affairs of the army of that day. Stuart
| was then only % years OF age, and had
just been appointed Regjmental Quarter
master and Commissary at Fort Leaven-
worth, while his father-in-law was COM
mandant of the Fort Riley post. The
| Western country boasted few handsomer
| girls than Flora Cooke and fewer fine
| looking matrOns than Mrs. Stuart.
| hear she is now a teacher in a young
ladies' seminary in Virginia, and that
! her daughter, Miss Virginia Pelham
! stuart, has fallen heir to much of her
mothers beauty.
| 81 never met Mrs. Beauregard, but
! friends tell me she mad all the brilliant
| qualities of pure French woman and ali
the dangerous beauty OF the South. She
was elegant in her speech and manners.
| She had sparkling black eyes. a wealth OF
! coal-black hair, and in all respects was a
| highly accomplished woman. | don't
| think Gen. Beauregard has ever entirely
| recovered from the shock OF her death.
| met him last year on his visit to st Louis,
! and he spoke of his wife with affecti0nate
! tenderness. Hers was a type of beauty
| seldom seen outside of Louisiana, and
| fancy she must have made a very popu-
lar impression in the wide circle of So
ciety in which herself and her husband
moved.
81 cannot say that any Of the ladies of
Gen. Lees household were particularly
beautiful. They were all fine BLOCKING
| even TO Mrs. Lee, who was an invalid
| throughout the war. Miss Mary Lee, the
| Generals second daughter, is now about
| 30 years old, plain, unpTetentious wo-
man, having great force of character, and
| that gentle dignity which all the Lees
possessed. Miss Mildred Lee. the eldest
daughter, travels a great deal, hear,
and is seldom seen in this country, but
she sometimes visits her brother, Gen. G .
!, W. G. Lee, at Lexington, Va. Both Miss
!, Mildred and Miss Mary are great faYortes
iuwith the people of Virginia, not merely
on their fathers account, but because OF
ihe quiet charity and sympathy whic h
woave always characterized them.
in "The second wife of Mr.. Jefferson Davis
avtas a splendid appearing woman in her
vitSuth, and have no doubt she is yet fine
tpking. She was a Miss NarIna Howell,
mind / think she was born in Georgia,
ly beugh her fathers family lived many
soleLrs in New Orleans. She is of Welsh
cent, but had more marks of beauty
veriln Is generally accorded the women
}, nEt have Immediately descended from
ar mees. remember when MI. Davis visit
Ir loveis city about thirteen years ago, he
ed anAccompanled by one OF ms sons, then a
of then young man. L was casually intro
,ervolrf to the latter, and when l said to
remitN How much you resemble your
a des- IF. sir he trasped my hand again
DRY sud with sudden earnestness: Thank
a man You don't know how tired | am Of
balance people cell me how much resem-
duty to binary Taylor The point of the
de--by las you probably know, tn at Mr.
n then nd no children by MS first wife
ems be Ehter OF Gen, Iaylof-and great
to the ople mad aired their Ignorance by
Mr.. Davis son as the grandson
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